Dorico…to be or not.

[Mr_Incognito]

Plethora.

To start with - who is in the most stable position in the long run? Not I who went for Finale. Those who mastered open source stuff (Lilypond, MusiXTeX, Frescobaldi etc.). Nothing has changed for them, and won't change, unless they decide so. No unwanted "transition", conversion, re-editing. Everything always where left, with output potentially second to none.

Open source software still needs to be supported by someone else, unless you're doing it yourself. There are plenty of abandoned Open source projects. It's not impossible that Lilypond will grind to a halt, 20 years down the road. And it's currently a lot harder to get data out of Lilypond than other notation apps.
So that seems a pretty poor argument for choosing the right tool for getting your work done now.

By the time anyone needs to move away from either Dorico or Lilypond, 30 years from now, we'll likely have much better tools for migration anyway.

Don't quite understand the reasoning. The worst case scenario is running the file in the open source software version that created it - what support is needed?

[MichelRE]

Don't quite understand the reasoning. The worst case scenario is running the file in the open source software version that created it - what support is needed?

I don't understand the reasoning either.
If Dorico goes face-down, like Finale did, then one STILL has the installed version of Dorico on our computer.
It's the exact same logic.

[John Ruggero]

And I have no doubt that AI conversion is just around the corner.